Karl Witt wrote:
Way to be on your game Herb, these owls are simply beautiful birds. BG color has a chilling feel to it and presents the warmth of 'Barney' very nicely.
Catchlights don't look quite right to me, a little to pinpoint intense perhaps, some slightly out of align IMO but the addition of them does add more

This has to be one of my favorite Owls, very cool Herb!
Karl

Hey Karl, I tried adding the catchlights but I failed to fool you. I'll have to re edit them and reduce the opacity of the brush on them. Thanks again buddy. You're the only one that picked up on my poor catchlight additions.

I am just curious.. is wearing camouflage a really important part of getting shots like these? Owls are so ridiculously hard to spot, I've only managed to shoot one once (a barred owl) in my entire life.. most of the time I can hear them and have zero chance of figuring out which direction to even point my camera.

But then again I am not an avid bird watcher & don't have time to go do this every week.

I know I'm not going to come into a 500/4 but wearing the right clothes might be more attainable.